Contact
The Court has its seat in Arusha, in the United Republic of Tanzania and can be reached at the following contact address:
P.O. Box 6274
Arusha
Tanzania
Tel +255-732-97 95 09/+255-732-97 95 51
Fax +255-732-97 95 03
Website: www.african-court.org
for more information please email your queries to infocom(at)african-court.org
The Court's temporary physical address is:
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Dodoma Road
Arusha
United Republic of Tanzania
| President’s Office | presidentoffice@african-court.org |
| Registrar’s Office | registrar@african-court.org |
| Human Resources | humanresources@african-court.org |
| Finance Services | finance@african-court.org |
| Library | library@african-court.org |
| Information and Communication | infocom@african-court.org |
| Protocol | protocol@african-court.org |
Lodging Complaints
One has to send to the Court's Registry a signed application written in one of the Court's official languages. For more detailed information see Lodging Complaints. For applications by individuals and NGOs, the application must :
- Disclose the identity of the applicant, even where the applicant has requested anonymity ;
- Comply with the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the Charter ;
- Not contain any disparaging or insulting language ;
- Not be based exclusively on news disseminated through the mass media ;
- Be filed after exhausting local remedies, if any, unless it is obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged ;
- Be filed within a reasonable time from the date local remedies were exhausted or from the date set by the Court as being the commencement of the time limit within which it shall be seized with the matter ;
- Not raise any matter or issues previously settled by the parties in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the provisions of the Charter or of any legal instrument of the African Union.
In addition to the above requirements, applications by individuals and NGOs should indicate, and this also applies to applications by entities other than individuals and NGOs :
- The names and addresses of the persons designated as the applicant's representatives ;
- A summary of the facts of the case and of the evidence that will be adduced ;
- Clear particulars of the applicant and of the party or parties against whom the application has been brought ;
- Specification of the alleged violation ;
- Evidence of exhaustion of local remedies or of the inordinate delay of such local remedies ;
- The orders or injunctions sought ;
- Where an applicant on his/her own behalf or on behalf of the victim wishes to be granted reparation, the application should include the request for reparation.